Geography Lessons in the Garden, Part 4
Posted by John Friel on Nov 18th 2020
A good mixed
perennial garden contains a trip around the world – or at least across a continent or two. Today’s tour guides: a native that sounds exactly like where it came from, and an immigrant whose name bears echoes from long ago and far away.
Aster novae-angliae “New England Aster”
Here’s a case where Latin and common names mean precisely the same thing. This fall-flowering plant was first collected in the original northeastern American Colonies and shipped home to Europe, where th